Kelly Preston Got Sober for Her Kids

Actress Kelly Preston gave up her excessive use of alcohol and drugs after the birth of her baby son, she disclosed on Lifetime's The Conversation With Amanda de Cadenet. In the interview, the 49-year-old wife of John Travolta says she is "so much wiser" since giving birth in November 2010 and subsequently getting clean. "I'm so different, too. Now I don't drink anymore. I don't smoke anymore. I don't do drugs anymore," she says. "All of those come with an 'anymore.' I used to do everything and a lot of everything." Preston, who was once engaged to Charlie Sheen, explains, "with drinking, I just decided that I wasn't always at my best. There were times where I drank too much, for sure" and when she was drinking, she describes "not being myself with my kids, or just with my life 100 percent of the time." She and Travolta, 58, have been married since 1991 and also have a 12-year-old daughter; their son, Jett, died of a seizure in 2009. "Our kids are the center of our universe," she says, and she credits them—and a desire to be more present in their lives— with helping motivate her to get sober. "For me, I find that our kids came in half the time to teach me about myself and to help me with others, and they have helped me so extraordinarily."